Chapter 36
Remembrance 3 from Chapter 36
Seeking protection from shayṭān after the opening du‘ā’
Arabic
Romanisation
A‘ūdhu bi-llāhi-s-Samī‘i-l-‘Alīmi mina-sh-shayṭāni-r-rajīm, min nafkhihi wa nafathihi wa hamzih.
Context
We relate in the Sunans of Abū Dāwūd, at-Tirmidhī, an-Nasā’ī, Ibn Mājah, al-Bayhaqī and others that the Messenger of Allah 
said before his recitation in ṣalāh: “I seek protection in Allah, from Shayṭān the rejected; from his conceit, his [obscene] poetry and his slander.” [2].Another narration has: “I seek refuge in Allah the All-Hearing and All-knowing from the accursed Shayṭān, his [obscene] poetry, his pride and his madness.”
References
[2] Abū Dāwūd (764), at-Tirmidhī (242), al-Bayhaqī, and an-Nasā’ī in al-Kubrā. Ibn Ḥajar grades it as ḥasan and mentions narrations which support it.